![]() ![]() Gemstones tells the story of a family and a church in flux, with your typical McBride flourishes: bombastic idiots behaving badly, plenty of juvenile jokes about genitals.īut Jesse is, McBride assured us, inherently different from his two previous HBO assholes. Frequent McBride collaborator Walton Goggins also shows up, playing his uncle Baby Billy (not an actual baby). The eldest son of a megachurch’s esteemed founder Eli Gemstone (John Goodman), Jesse spends the first season facing down a blackmail threat while jockeying for power with his younger brother and sister (played by Adam Devine and Edi Patterson, respectively). The comedian has starred as asshole ex-baseball star Kenny Powers in Eastbound and Down and asshole middle school vice principal Neal Gamby in Vice Principals in the upcoming series The Righteous Gemstones, his third show for HBO, he plays televangelist-and huge asshole-Jesse Gemstone. What Kobayashi is to eating large amounts of hot dogs, Danny McBride is to playing assholes: so adept at doing something unpleasant, he almost elevates it to the divine. ![]()
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